How much do career/technical education teachers, middle school make in Washington?

The median wage for career/technical education teachers, middle school in Washington is $103,290 a year.

Half earn more than that and half earn less. The figure comes from the Bureau of Labor Statistics occupational wage survey for May 2025.

BLS’s mean (average) wage for career/technical education teachers, middle school in Washington is $101,520 a year. The median is $103,290.

The mean sits higher when a smaller group of high earners pulls the average up. For a typical paycheck, the median is the better middle.

BLS does not publish starting pay. The closest figure it does publish is the low end of the range: in Washington, the lowest-paid 10% of career/technical education teachers, middle school earn under $74,590 a year and a quarter earn under $83,020.

New hires often start somewhere in that band, but the May 2025 survey does not record experience, so read it as a floor to compare an offer against rather than a typical first salary.

The overall salary range for career/technical education teachers, middle school in Washington spans from $74,590 for the bottom 10% to $127,540 for top earners.

The middle 50% earn between $83,020 and $118,750 a year, with the overall median at $103,290.

On the median wage of $103,290, a single filer taking the 2026 standard deduction keeps an estimated $81,495 a year, or roughly $6,791 a month.

That is after federal and FICA tax, an effective rate of 21.1%.

Washington levies no state income tax on wages, so nothing is withheld for it.

On the median annual salary of $103,290, estimated take-home pay is roughly $6,791 a month after federal, state, and FICA taxes.

For workers paid on a standard biweekly schedule (26 pay periods per year), each paycheck is approximately $3,134 net.

Yes. The median in Washington is 58.8% above the national median of $65,030.

Nominal pay is only half the comparison: prices in Washington sit at 107 against a national 100, so the gap in what the money buys is different from the gap in the salary.

It is 1.05 times the median household income of $98,141. A household often has more than one earner, so a single salary at this level goes further than the ratio alone suggests.

Prices in Washington run at 107 against a national average of 100, with rents at 126, so $103,290 here buys about what $96,521 buys at national average prices.

The top tenth earn $127,540 a year or more. The 10th-percentile wage is $74,590.

Experience, specialty, employer and the part of Washington someone works in all move a wage inside that range; the survey reports the spread, not the reason for it.

The survey counted 720 of these jobs in Washington for May 2025.

That makes the occupation 87% more concentrated here than in the country as a whole. It counts wage and salary jobs, so the self-employed are outside it.